you can tell the romney campaign is feeling this as well. they announced that they were suspending their campaign events for this afternoon and for tomorrow as well. clearly the romney campaign does not want to appear to be overtly political at a time when americans are in danger up and down the eastern seaboard. here's the president. >> hello, everybody. i just received a full briefing from our energy response teams including fema and agencies that are going to be helpful in the response and recovery efforts. the department of energy, the department of transportation, the department of homeland security and the department of health and human services. obviously everybody is aware at this point that this is going to be a big and powerful storm. and all across the eastern seaboard, i think everybody is taking the appropriate preparations. i've spoken to all the governors in all these states. they have issued emergency declarations. those have been turned around quickly here in the white house. we have prepositioned assets so that fema personn